Andrea Jaeger

Andrea Jaeger fascinates me because her second act dwarfs her first, and her first was already extraordinary. Turning pro at fourteen and ranking world number two by sixteen, she was a prodigy who could have spent decades chasing trophies. Instead she walked away and became a nun devoted to helping seriously ill children. I find that pivot deeply moving. It takes one kind of talent to reach the top of a sport and an entirely different kind of character to let it go for something you find more meaningful. Jaeger is proof that the most memorable champions are not always defined by what they won.

Name (English)

Andrea Jaeger

Name (Japanese)

アンドレア・イエガー

Reading

あんどれあ・いえがー

Born

June 4, 1965 (age 61)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Snake

Origin

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Height

168 cm

Occupation

tennis player / nun

High school

Stevenson High School

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A8%E3%82%AC%E3%83%BC

Tags

• Illinois
• tennis player
• nun

Last updated

2026-06-02

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